It is just so pointless. All the aimless wandering is for what? Wasting time wandering, looking, for just the right movie to help you waste even more time. I just can't take all that time wasting. It makes my head want to explode. All the aimless wandering makes me dizzy.
I have tried to figure out a good system for "shopping" at a movie store. Do you start at one wall and look at everything thing on every shelf as you move around the vast expanse? If you go to quickly you might miss some hidden treasure. What is all the crap in the middle of the store? How do you do those rows? As you come to them, or after you do the perimeter? Do you choose a genre and only shop there? Do you look for the movies with the flashiest advertising? The ones with the most empty boxes on the shelf? None of these are efficient, none bring you any closer to the right selection. All are an inane waste.
The only good thing about movie stores is that they always have cotton candy. I love cotton candy. The only time I have ever, willingly, under my own power, driven to Blockbuster was to buy bags of cotton candy for Quincie, Ani and Aina. We were on the way to the beach and we always get some ridiculously yummy treat to take to the beach. We bought every single bag they had. Cotton candy is the Queen of all things ridiculous and yummy!
The newer creation. If wandering the video store isn't enough, now every store, gas station, and fast food place has the RED BOX.
ReplyDeleteBe careful if you ever approach the bright red box because as soon as you touch the screen to take a peak, 15 people will suddenly appear behind you and give you that look. You know the one where they wish you'd die so they can have their turn, but they don't want to look impolite by asking you to hurry it up. If you should find a title that is available for enjoyment, then you encounter the scarier problem. When you return it, you become one of the 15 people standing there while some moron takes 2 hours reading every movie title and description.
I have had the red box experience, and as usual, you are right! Those things are crazy!
ReplyDeleteThey don't have those magical red boxes here on this island. I wish I owned a few thousand of them to put here.